What was the last movie you saw?

I can't dislike Baron Munchhausen even though it's bizarre and kind of depressing like other Gilliam films. You get the feeling there is something great within it but it doesn't quite come out somehow.
There are a lot of memorable visuals---the dancing scene--the Zodiac creatures soaring in the stars--and the Grim Reaper, and Eric Idle running feats.

The 1943 version uses a similar special effect with the running.

"Is there a doctor in the fish?"


 
I watch Alienated (2021). It's a moderately dumb Amazon Rom-Com about a human falling in love with an alien (Gracie Lacy) who looks like a completely normal (except much above ave. beauty wise). There was an interesting side story about a Dad with dementia. I didn't mind watching it, especially because there is no objectionable language, violence, or behavior.
 
Mon0Zer0 said:
It didn't match the aesthetic of the comics, but it was a good actioner in the vein of the raid. What didn't you like about it?
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It didn't match the aesthetics of the comic was a big part and I really didn't like the almost pornographic ultra-violence. And the end was so stupid that if it had happened earlier in the film I would have given up on the spot. (I nearly gave up when we first saw the outdoor, sticking out of the side of a kilometre high tower block, skateboard park obviously destined from the moment it appeared on screen to be a stupidly convenient plot device later in the movie.)

The end:

At the end of the movie the villain of the piece, facing certain defeat, has a deadman device implanted in her that will set of a gazzillion tons of explosives and kill everyone if her heartbeat stops. Dredd throws her out of a window HOPING the dingus only has a limited range and that when she hits the ground, a kilometre below, it will be too far away from the bomb to trigger it. The idea that the lack of ANY signal might trigger the bomb doesn't seem to enter his head nor does the idea of just immobilising her till the bomb is found and disarmed. It's just DUMB. I was expecting more from such an obviously smart writer.
 
KGeo777 said:
I can't dislike Baron Munchhausen even though it's bizarre and kind of depressing like other Gilliam films. You get the feeling there is something great within it but it doesn't quite come out somehow.
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Your're right, there is something strangely downbeat about it, but I couldn't explain why. I think part of it is the editing, and the story-within-a-story structure doesn't help all that much. There's a sense of everything crumbling and falling apart.

I thought Dredd suffered from not being cartoony enough and not having any sense of jeopardy for the hero. It couldn't decide if it was an accurate (and therefore cartoony) adaptation of the comics, or The Wire set in a tower block.
 
Army of Thieves 2021 - every time a new 'heist' movie comes out I cross my fingers and watch it, but invariably am disappointed, and this one is no exception. A goofy nerd 'master safecracker' MC is recruited.. and we have a series of 4 safes, based on Wagner's Ring Cycle... etcetc. and from there we get a crew of criminals and some action hero stuff.. and nothing believable re; safecracking, heisting, or anything at all. Some good interior shots of tumblers falling and locks clicking into place, but otherwise abjectly unmemorable.
 
Sure are a lot of movies are about criminals (stealing something) or assassins-I notice a lot of women assassin stories now.
There's one that is like Georgy Girl as a sympathetic serial killer.
 
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017) and Jumanji: The Next Level (2019). They were decent. I praise the acting over the scripts.
 
Eli 2019
A boy has severe auto immune disease (basically he's allergic to everything) and his parents move into a Big Spooky House where he is able to breathe freely without being in a plastic suit or living in a tent. All seems well then Weird S++t Happens.
An odd one.
 
THE CENTERFOLD GIRLS 1974 - A religious fanatic (America's trailer park Roddy McDowall, Andrew Prine) seeks to murder women who appeared nude in a magazine-but his victims keep having weird encounters even before he gets to them--the first gets kidnapped by hippies and then almost raped by a hotel owner, the second has to contend with a lesbian boss, the third gets drugged and raped by two sailors. It's not a good movie and not bad enough to be entertaining as cheap exploitation.
 
JunkMonkey said:
Barbarella - again. This time with a slightly bemused Number 2 Daughter. She's seventeen, interested in fashion history, and I'd managed to convince her to watch it with me because it was 'an essential distillation of 1960s design and the costumes (by Paco Rabanne) are fecking groovy as hell'.
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I recently saw online a picture of -- I think -- Ariana Grande wearing something acknowledged to be based on Barbarella (it would have been obvious anyway). So the influence continues.
 
METROPOLIS (1927) :unsure: Seems like it influenced more than just the physical appearance of C3PO. I recall reading that Hitler saw this and wanted Lang to work for him. Apparently, H was impressed by how the film depicted humans as mere cogs in the machine. But there are 6 years between the release date of the film & H's ascension to power. Anyway, according to what I read, Lang being a Jew, decided to flee rather than accept to job. Note that the Wiki page says other things influenced H to offer the job to Lang.

Anyway, in viewing it, it does seem to have communist message, or, perhaps better to say a message that could easily be interpreted as such.

when the workers realize they had been led astray, & demand the death of the witch (the robot in the form of Maria) there are scenes of the pursuit of the fake M then fake M on a man's shoulders at a party, followed by more pursuit. I was almost thinking the real M was being chased. Not the case. Now, I wonder if somebody goofed in reassembling the pieces into 1 film. :unsure:
 
Jeffbert said:
METROPOLIS (1927) :unsure: Seems like it influenced more than just the physical appearance of C3PO. I recall reading that Hitler saw this and wanted Lang to work for him. Apparently, H was impressed by how the film depicted humans as mere cogs in the machine. But there are 6 years between the release date of the film & H's ascension to power. Anyway, according to what I read, Lang being a Jew, decided to flee rather than accept to job. Note that the Wiki page says other things influenced H to offer the job to Lang.

Anyway, in viewing it, it does seem to have communist message, or, perhaps better to say a message that could easily be interpreted as such.

when the workers realize they had been led astray, & demand the death of the witch (the robot in the form of Maria) there are scenes of the pursuit of the fake M then fake M on a man's shoulders at a party, followed by more pursuit. I was almost thinking the real M was being chased. Not the case. Now, I wonder if somebody goofed in reassembling the pieces into 1 film. :unsure:
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Jeffbert said:
METROPOLIS (1927) :unsure: Seems like it influenced more than just the physical appearance of C3PO. I recall reading that Hitler saw this and wanted Lang to work for him. Apparently, H was impressed by how the film depicted humans as mere cogs in the machine. But there are 6 years between the release date of the film & H's ascension to power. Anyway, according to what I read, Lang being a Jew, decided to flee rather than accept to job. Note that the Wiki page says other things influenced H to offer the job to Lang.

Anyway, in viewing it, it does seem to have communist message, or, perhaps better to say a message that could easily be interpreted as such.

when the workers realize they had been led astray, & demand the death of the witch (the robot in the form of Maria) there are scenes of the pursuit of the fake M then fake M on a man's shoulders at a party, followed by more pursuit. I was almost thinking the real M was being chased. Not the case. Now, I wonder if somebody goofed in reassembling the pieces into 1 film. :unsure:
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Which version did you watch? There have been many edits.
 
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